A Defense for Pornography
There’re all kinds of weird shit out there and I didn’t ask for it. It’s there though and it reveals a weakness in being human in the world (if we must refer to it in such terms.) Pornography comes in many flavors.
Straight, Gay, Bisexual, Groups, M/M/F, M/F/F, Stockings, Bestiality, Shemale, Housewife, Amateur, Gangbangs, Orgies, Swingers, Teens, Redhead, Brunette, Blonde, Midgets, 69, Anal, MILF; the list can continue ad nauseam.
Even within these genres of porn, there are varying degrees of pornography: Are scenes tender and seductive or angry and violent? Who gets humiliated in the end? Where does the jizz fly? Is there a scene or is it just straight to sex? How much gets clipped? Who made money and who was forced? Is it real or just a simulation? Condom or no condom?
I’m sure I’m just barely scratching the surface of ways in which pornography can be analyzed (as to be definitely distinct from anal-ized) in order to attempt an understanding of being human. My point is not to describe pornography in detail here but to perhaps remove a bit of stigma assigned to the word pornography. In order to do this, it seems proper to first regard
the most obvious stigma between sex and pornography.
After all, without the sex you really can’t have much of a porno flick.
Sex is one of those things we don’t really talk much about. Sex is, generally, heavier on the doing side rather than explaining. For this reason, analyzing pornography could be a way to understand how some people are adept at speaking during sex while many seem incapable of uttering a meaningful mouthful merged in the act. There are some people capable of being eloquent concubines and turning you on.
Is there anything more beautiful than someone turning you on?
It is, after all, your personal business as well as those you invite in (as long as they’re of appropriate age and willing.) Why choose not to experience exhilaration and heart-pounding caused by happy hormones pulsating throughout the flesh? Yes it is carnal and born right in us as we’re thrown together into the world.
If God gave it to us and then demanded we not use it that would be a cruel god indeed. If sex unfocuses the mind, then maybe that is a good thing every now and again. Clear out the pipes and produce a state of relaxation. That is a good thing. In all of this I have been careful to only address physical responses because I do not believe the psychological effects of sex are as easy to push aside. All I can offer on the psychological front is that Tantra speaks to the human ability to conceptualize and live with sexual practice in the world in divergent fashions.
The next, and for now final, aspect of pornography to consider is the act of people having sex in front of a camera with the record button depressed. We film almost everything though. I can show you a train wreck.
Or a screeching kid getting shot with paintballs, who may or may not be in on the gag.
There’s nothing intelligent about either one of these things and much to ridicule, unless you subject the content to analysis. It’s what is done with the content which determines whether or not it is worthwhile. Each viewer interprets content in their own fashion.
That too is part of the human condition. In this regard, I don’t believe subjectivity is a weakness but instead merely a condition of our being ourselves in the world. Something being recorded and distributed to a wider audience describes the taste of the audience by what remains to proliferate and what’s unfavorited dying quickly.
When something proliferates on the internet it is because at least some of the people you know are taking part.
We can say it is wrong, but when so many people take part can they all really be so wrong? In what sense? If we simply count numbers, and work some computations, averages and outliers suggest people not doing certain things are the ones who are out of step with the many.
The many who simply do without explaining cannot be assessed by the strength of their voice. It seems counterproductive to demand an explanation from one who simply does. We may try to educate away the problems we see with others sexual practices but still we’re consumed ourselves with sex. There may be no escape from sex! So the cameras do not really seem to complicate the matter at all, because pornography simply reflects what is already happening among people in the world.
For these reasons, I believe, pornography should not be connoted with filth and dirt but rather be regarded as simply another reflection of human behavior.
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